All Posts Tagged With: "CRB"

A New Bull Market Is Just Getting Started

Commodities are ready to explode higher.

In the commodity sector, you don’t get a more bullish sign than when the 20-day moving average crosses over the 50-day moving average. (And there isn’t a more bearish sign than when the cross goes the other way.)

Take a look at this chart of the Commodities Index (CRB)…
Commodities Index CRB

The 20-day moving average crossed over the 50-day moving average back in September 2007. That kicked off a strong bull market in commodity prices, and the index rallied from about 325 all the way up to 475 – a gain of 46% – in just 10 months.

In July…

2Apr2009 | Stansberry and Associates | 0 comments | Continued

The CRB Index: What Commodities Can Tell Investors About Stocks

In 1933 and 1934, President Franklin D. Roosevelt was doing the same thing Obama is working to do today – reduce the corruption in our capital markets by increasing transparency and regulation.

Most investors know that the SEC and our key securities laws were enacted in those years…

Few know that in 1934, at the request of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the Bureau of Labor Statistics began the computation of a daily commodity price index, using quotations for sensitive commodities.

The Commodities Research Bureau Index (the CRB Index) let’s you see what the commodity markets are doing, just like the S&P…

20Feb2009 | Investment U | 0 comments | Continued
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